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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious death at Broadway and Nassau in Brooklyn, a pedestrian struck at the Van Wyck Expressway and Rockaway Boulevard and an all points bulletin in the 10th Precinct area of Manhattan.
- A male body was found in Silver Lake Park on Staten Island.
- A ring of 10 people, including a doctor and physical therapist, were charged with faking millions in claims for 500 (fake) patients.
- New Yorker editor David Remnick appeared on Charlie Rose to discuss, yes, the New Yorker's Obamas cover.
- Kottke looks at the Life magazine photograph of a 1947 suicide off the Empire State Building.
- At the Patagonia stores on the UWS and in Soho, you can vote on which environmental advocacy groups should get $4,000 grants.
- And the 19-year-old who wore a 6-foot-tall penis costume at a Saratoga Springs high school graduation was sentenced to 24 hours of community service, paying court fees and apologizing to the city in a local newspaper.